Amos 7:17 meaning and explanation
Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword. Your land will be divided by a measuring line, and you yourself will die on pagan soil. And Israel will surely go into exile, away from their homeland.’”
Amos 7:17, Berean Standard Bible
Explanation preview
Amos has just been ordered out of Bethel by Amaziah, the priest who served the king's sanctuary there. Amos answers that he never trained as a prophet; God took him from tending sheep and fig trees and sent him to Israel.
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